School-based wellness initiative shown to reduce average student BMI
Health impacts students’ ability to learn. Leaders at MUSC’s Boeing Center for Children’s Wellness (MUSC BCCW) believe that lessons on healthy living can be part...
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Aging | Telomere shortening linked to depression and cognitive impairment in older adults
“ we believe that our findings will help prevent and treat depression and cognitive impairment in the healthy elderly.”Credit: 2023 Han et al. “ we...
SFI Press reissues Complexity, Entropy, and the Physics of Information
FEBRUARY 28, 2023Credit: Santa Fe Institute FEBRUARY 28, 2023 For a few days early in the summer of 1989, roughly 80 physicists, computer scientists, mathematicians,...
Mysterious new behavior seen in whales may be recorded in ancient manuscripts
In 2011, scientists recorded a previously unknown feeding strategy in whales around the world. Now, researchers in Australia think they may have found evidence of...
Novel method of analyzing microplastic particle pollution can facilitate environmental impact assessment
In the last decade, growing numbers of researchers have studied plastic pollution, one of the world’s most pressing environmental hazards. They have made progress but...
BIAL Award in Biomedicine worth 300,000 Euros
The third edition of the BIAL Foundation's international award, the BIAL Award in Biomedicine, is now underway, with nominations open until 30 June. With the...
Better metric for prioritizing conservation of “evolutionarily distinctive” species
An updated metric for prioritizing species’ conservation that incorporates scientific uncertainty and complementarity between species, in addition to extinction risk and evolutionary distinctiveness, is publishing...
Sexting found to be associated with negative mental heath
A new study has shown that sexting was associated with depression, anxiety, sleep problems, and compulsive sexual behaviors. The study is published in the peer-reviewed...
Report: Science rejected, lives lost – how society can do better
The international group of scientists who successfully lobbied the World Health Organisation to recognise the airborne transmission of COVID-19 have published four key steps needed...
Artificial intelligence with a human touch
Despite the remarkable progress in artificial intelligence (AI), several studies show that AI systems do not improve radiologists' diagnostic performance. In fact, diagnostic errors contribute...
Study finds association between lifetime experiences of discrimination and incidence of dementia
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – Feb. 28, 2023 – According to new research from Wake Forest University School of Medicine, people who experience discrimination during their lifetimes have...
St. Jude approach prevents drug resistance and toxicity
(MEMPHIS, Tenn. – February 27, 2023) Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital have demonstrated how drug makers can avoid two key problems: toxicity and resistance....
Activation of peroxymonosulfate and photothermal for removal of phenolic organic pollutants and lignin derivatives
At present, the traditional ways to deal with the above two kinds of pollutants are mainly physical adsorption and biodegradation. The main disadvantages of these...
Defect engineering for advanced electrocatalytic conversion of nitrogen-containing molecules
This study is led by Prof. Shuangyin Wang (College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hunan University) and Prof. Chen Chen (College of Chemistry and Chemical...
A motion freezer for many particles
Using lasers to slow down atoms is a technique that has been used for a long time already: If one wants to achieve low-temperature world...
